email from Gallege de Silva.
..... How very true!!
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..... How very true!!
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
The ocean.
Subject: Fwd: The Ocean as you Have Never Seen it Before!This is awesome ... show it to your children, grandchildren students, or just your friends -- this is something that some of us will never get to experience ourselves ...
Who knew that all this beauty waited below the sea. Spectacular!!!!
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The Ocean as you have not seen it before
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Peripheral road development Sri Lanka.
Not so obvious values of peripheral road
development Sri Lanka
In the news has been the
visible development of the main roads all over the country. Not confined
to Colombo alone.
But often unnoted
by the traveller has been the equally valuable development of the
smaller roads in the provinces and the village areas ( pradeshiya sabha) going on for years. Few have the
time to go through thousands of by roads and village tracks.
Attached is the news of the planned
investment of a further $ 1200 million
into a thousand of these provincial/village roads.
Maybe it is election time, but unlike in former times, they are not beginning now; they have been at it for
years, for decades though at a slower pace.
Some patriots have
been critical of this peripheral financial input, some even going so far
as to condemn even the new rd to hitherto isolated Mulaithivu.
But one needs ask for
opinion only from the villager beneficiaries who serendipitously got quick road
access in case of health, business reasons etc etc.
Referring to my familiar area, the health sector too has kept pace, the budget of 124 million last year spent and upped
to 159 million this year.
The upgrading of peripheral hospitals have kept young
orthopaedic surgeons reasonably happy, so that many of them are doing work
there, not scooting to greener pastures as was happening in the
past decades.
I am not able to comment
on the third important factor schooling, but that seem to have kept pace too.
Today, there is promise
of a better life for the locals who are (farming) the
backbone of food production.
Hopefully more and more will find acceptable
productive work in these difficult areas, what with present droughts and future
floods.
To wit, my former car driver is now back home in Tissa
driving as well as developing his family paddy land, also putting up a new
house at a slow pace.
There is no immediate
visible result on these govt. investments, except in the long term. But it is a
must.
Today Embilipitiya is a well to
do town or city ( buses leaving the town
stand every 5 minutes,) after decades of development efforts and
today much of our farm produce is sourced from it.
Dambulla is another, a
rustic town not so long ago, now about the
most important market centre of produce in the whole country.
Ampara yet another.
In the last ten years of
my travel there has been such development wherever we went, excluding the former ‘war’ areas which we avoided
then.
(Looking at
the sparsely populated north, I wonder who will settle back in their own
agricultural regions without jumping out for better pastures?
Some
doctors stationed there say that their work load is too small! (Other than
Jaffna peninsula) to warrant too many medical specialities.
Seems some
of the western province entrepreneurs of all hues are tapping these regions
putting up hotels and fishing businesses)
Going back 40 years to
the past, as I know, the Canadians offered us a developed road work in the
1970s which our socialist govt. was not interested in. Maybe we could
have avoided some nasty events originating from the poor regions? Only gives
more reason why we need develop under developed areas, if only to avoid
roots and pockets of violence.
Keeping this short.
jksw
Raju the captive elephant.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Curiosities of history.
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Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head . Now it gets really weird. Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln . Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth , who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy,
was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters. Now hang on to your seat. Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford'. Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford'. Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. And here's the kicker... A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe , Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe. WHO FIGURED THIS OUT?! Now, try this… INCREDIBLE 1) Fold a NEW $20 bill in half... 2) Fold again, taking care to fold it exactly as below 3) Fold the other end, exactly as before 4) Now, simply turn it over... What a coincidence! A simple geometric fold creates a catastrophic premonition printed on all $20 bills!!! COINCIDENCE? YOU DECIDE As if that wasn't enough... |
SUPER SHORT SCRIPTS
email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai.
1. COOL MESSAGE BY A WIFE:
Dear Mother-in-law, “Don’t teach me how to handle my children, I’m living with one of yours and he needs a lot of improvement!”
2. SWEET DEMAND BY A KID:
A kid was spanked by his mom. His dad came home and asked the crying boy, "What happened, Son?"
The kid replied, "I can’t stand your wife anymore. I want my own."
3. THROWING KNIVES:
A wife was throwing knives at her husband’s picture. All were missing the target!
Suddenly she received a call from him. “Hi," he asked. "What are you doing?”
Her honest reply: “Missing you!”
4. I WILL THINK ABOUT IT:
When a married man says, “I’ll think about it”, what he really means is that he doesn’t know his wife’s opinion yet.
5. TALKING IN SLEEP:
A lady says to her doctor: "My husband has a habit of talking in his sleep! What should I give him to cure it?"
The doctor replies: "Give him an opportunity to speak when he’s awake!"
6. HEAD OF THE FAMILY:
It is said that the husband is the head of the family, but remember that the wife is the neck of the family. The neck can turn the head exactly the way it wants.
Dear Mother-in-law, “Don’t teach me how to handle my children, I’m living with one of yours and he needs a lot of improvement!”
2. SWEET DEMAND BY A KID:
A kid was spanked by his mom. His dad came home and asked the crying boy, "What happened, Son?"
The kid replied, "I can’t stand your wife anymore. I want my own."
3. THROWING KNIVES:
A wife was throwing knives at her husband’s picture. All were missing the target!
Suddenly she received a call from him. “Hi," he asked. "What are you doing?”
Her honest reply: “Missing you!”
4. I WILL THINK ABOUT IT:
When a married man says, “I’ll think about it”, what he really means is that he doesn’t know his wife’s opinion yet.
5. TALKING IN SLEEP:
A lady says to her doctor: "My husband has a habit of talking in his sleep! What should I give him to cure it?"
The doctor replies: "Give him an opportunity to speak when he’s awake!"
6. HEAD OF THE FAMILY:
It is said that the husband is the head of the family, but remember that the wife is the neck of the family. The neck can turn the head exactly the way it wants.
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